Edemilson Parana

Edemilson Paraná is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at LUT University, Finland, where he leads the Research Group on Economy Technology and Society (GETS). He is also a research fellow at CNPq (Brazil’s national research council) and an international fellow at the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development, University of Groningen.

He has previously taught at the University of Brasília and the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil and held research fellowships at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA, Brazil) and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD), Cardiff University.

Edemilson has lectured and published extensively in the areas of Political Economy, Economic Sociology, and Social Theory. His research interests include the Digital Economy, Digital Finance, Financialisation, and the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence. His academic work has been published in Big Data & Society, New Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Globalizations, Platforms & Society, among others.

His CV, academic publications, and public writing can be found here.